REPORTS that German tourists are put off Cyprus because there are too many noisy Brits on vacation emerged from Europe’s biggest tourism conference, held in Berlin this week.
Germans are the second biggest market for Cyprus holidays. Last year some 240,000 jetted in for a vacation, compared to 1.3 million Brits.
SENSATIONALIST statements, pictures and footage from outside the island’s courts will shortly be a thing of the past following a House Plenum decision to ban journalists, photographers and cameramen from approaching people appearing in court.
THE PRICE of the flight to Athens might increase because of the cost of services at the city’s new airport at Spata, Cyprus Airways (CY) spokesman Tassos Angelides said yesterday.
Spata airport, where all planes from Cyprus will land, will be up and running on March 28.
DRIVERS leaving their cars next to Larnaca’s Salt Lake were yesterday given a last chance to retrieve their vehicles before they are towed away and their owners fined, and the area is permanently fenced in.
HALF the Cypriots who repatriated in the last 15 years have gone back where they came from because they didn’t have the support they expected from the state, Kikis Christofides, the chairman of the Association of Expats and Repatriates told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
NICOSIA prison is investigating ways to step-up employee security outside working hours, in the wake of three bomb attacks on prison staff in 48 hours.
The prison said they could neither confirm nor deny a proposal to arm security guards 24 hours a day against threats to their personal security.
A CYPRIOT man was yesterday charged with trying to wrestle his pregnant Bulgarian wife from a Larnaca hospital bed, where she was being treated under police guard pending deportation.
On Thursday afternoon, Kyriacos Kadis allegedly pushed aside the woman police officer that had accompanied his wife Mapiya to hospital and then ran off with the Bulgarian.
AMNESTY International USA is campaigning for the release of Greek Cypriot diabetic Panicos Tsiakourmas, held by Turkish Cypriot authorities for nearly three months on charges of drug smuggling.
The father of three was abducted from British Base territory on December 13. He has been incarcerated in Turkish Cypriot custody ever since.
THE departure of about half the company workforce after the Valentine’s Day Massacre had an immediate effect on our friends in the Information Technology Dept. They found themselves in the middle of a pile of recently orphaned computers.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
